Rooster Teeth Podcast - Rooster Teeth Podcast #14

Episode Date: July 15, 2009

Rooster Teeth loves Hot for Words Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's time to put your pedal to the metal. From the twisted minds behind Deadpool and Zombieland, an executive producers, Will Arnett and Anthony Mackie comes the new Peacock original series, Twisted Metal, a high-oxane action comedy based on the classic video game series. Anthony Mackie stars as John Doe, a motormouth outsider who must deliver a mysterious package across a post-apocalyptic wasteland. If he can survive the drive, also starring Stephanie Beatriz, Samoa Joe, Nev Campbell, Will Arnett, and Thomas Hayden Church.

Twisted metal, now only on peacock And go with the theme song And... Yes! Hey everyone, it's a podcast A football podcast A football podcast Chef Party podcast theme song Chuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuchuch Matt. Matt. Matt. Matt. Matt.

Matt. Matt. Matt. Matt. Matt. Matt. Matt. Matt.

Matt. Matt. Matt. Matt. Matt. Matt. Matt. Matt.

Matt. Matt. Matt. Matt. Matt. Matt. Matt. Matt. Matt. Matt. Matt. Matt. Matt. Matt. Matt. Matt. Matt. Matt. Matt. Matt. Matt. Matt. Matt. Matt. Matt. Matt. Matt. Matt. Matt. Matt. Matt. Matt. Matt. Matt. Matt. Matt. Matt. Matt. Matt. Matt. Matt. Matt. Matt. Matt. Matt. Matt. Matt. Matt. Matt. Matt. Matt. Matt. Matt. Matt. Matt. Matt. Matt. Matt. Matt. Matt. Matt. Matt. Matt. Matt. Matt. Matt. Matt. Matt. Matt. Matt. Matt. Matt. Matt. Matt. Matt. Matt. Matt. Matt. Matt. Matt. Matt. Matt. Matt sound alike and I actually mistook your voice from my voice in that. Oh really? Yeah. I'm a believer before. I think both of our wives get confused when they call in.

They always think we're the other person. Has that ever resulted in sexy mistakes? People are married. There's no such thing as a sexy mistake. See, Jeff and I would have to be part of that equation for a sexy mistake that eliminates all the sexiness. If our wives mistook our other wives for us, that might make a sexy mistake, then it eliminates all the sexiness. If our wives mistook our other wives for us, that might make a sexy mistake. I think I saw a movie like that once in a hotel.

Did you really? Yeah, it was pretty good. Was it on your recent trip to Orlando? What was hot for words on a hotel television? It was really bizarre watching hot for words on HDTV instead of my little tiny YouTube window. You know the thing about the half-a-words, chick? I want to do work. I want to put stuff in her. I never get to the four words part. I get stuck at the hot. The what part?

I get stuck at the hot part. The what? The what part? Don't you get to? I never heard of that. No, the words part. I see. Got me there. Wap, wap, wap. That's comedy. It's etymology made sexy, baby. So I'm about a Russian chick too. Because you know they're desperate. You think that's what it is? Yeah, totally. She's Russian. Yeah. What's kind of like they're all scary, you know, because you grew up with like being afraid of them and then you find out they're hot. It's like it's a Prano's. Yeah, and they know how to pronounce really long polysilolipic words.

Nice. See that? Look at you. You've been watching Half Rords have a channeling Tyco today. You read enough of Tyco's blogs. You just pick it up. Okay. Well, the Tyco reference brought you guys. What the fuck was that?

Well, everyone was ready to talk about Half Rords chick. Now we're talking about Tyco. We're pretty good. I was I was talking. I was. Yeah, I was talking about fucking a Russian chick and you bring up young Donald Pleasant Here comes the bucket I swore on Hey, so it's a gruntake Hey, did you see that speaking of Tyco? Did you see that those guys who do the Mario

Marathon where they play Mario every single damn Mario game ever made They play him in a row for child's playing take donations and they did it again this year. Yeah, they dominated What did they end up with? I don't even know the what their total. I didn't realize they were done yet I think they were like when last I checked I think they were like in the high teens that they have to beat each Mario game There's a hundred percent of them I think like that include like how deep does that go? Does that include like that PC only Luigi time machine like time travel game that came out during the NES days? That was a PC game. Yeah, I have it. I have it for the PC. I can read you all the titles right here If you'd like to read I'd like to I would love to hear them these these guys raised $28,000

Okay, for child's play how awesome is that okay? Hold hold on one second they raised $28,000 for my home renovation Here's what they play here's what they played they played Super Mario Brothers. Okay, they played Super Mario Brothers 2 I played that one they played Super Mario Brothers 3 Super Mario World Super Mario 64 Super Mario Sunshine Super Mario Sunshine. Yeah Super Mario Galaxy Okay, then there's different levels. If they got different levels of donations They would have to do certain you'd like this Jeff like achievement levels. Sure. Sure. They 100% it Super Mario Brothers Which means played every level with no warping and stuff like that same as Super Mario Bros. 2 they 100% at 64 world galaxy

They played Mario paint Rick roll. What the hell is that? Well, I know Mario Paint is, that they have to make like a Rick Roll video using it. It sounds like they Rick Roll, their own audience, which, you know. Well, they're raising money. We'll forgive them for that stupid shit. And then they did Mario Dance, Mario Dance with Costume, Mario Paint Rick Roll Dance. Some stuff I don't understand in here. Who cares the point is they raised $28,000. And other news, the hot for words girl raised 28,000 boners yesterday in my pants

See this when we need a soundboard for the Video games don't talk about hot chicks All over the world you're in the wrong office. That's not true. We don't always talk about some of the stuff about Star Wars We've talked about Cheryl Heinz. I I start off every podcast by mentioning a hot chick. Oh, yeah, that's right. I'm Jeff Ramsey He's a hot for words chick and I'm gross. I'm Jeff Ramsey. He's a hot frauds chick and I'm Gus. Okay. There we go. We got that out of the way with almost took five minutes. I'm Tykel Brahi. Hot as chick around. So you're all ready for Comic Con next week? Yeah. Why wouldn't I be ready? Because it's it's it's an

undertaking my friend. You're going out there early too. You're gonna be in Southern California for a long time. Yeah I am. I'm gonna be out and it's gonna be like a Southern California kind of month for me because then after we come back from Comic Con We go right back out to do some Los Angeles business stuff as well some business Yeah, you're gonna be eating some sushi No, I kill a shrimp killer shrimp man. I got this place in Marina Del Rey called killer shrimp Which is basically a bowl of awesome with a huge loaf of bread as a side? That's the only location left right the Marina Del Rey. Yep. Yep. Yep. It's too bad shrimp which is basically a bowl of awesome with a huge loaf of bread as a side.

That's the only location left right? The marina dough. Yep. Yep. Yep. It's too bad. There used to be some other ones like an... I know my geography. I have a great sense of direction. It turns off when I go to Los Angeles. I do not understand the layout of LA at all. I fucked up town. I had the hardest time until we did like a billion commercials out there. And now I feel like I'm starting to get a grasp on it Yeah, I've sat in a monica down. That's about it And I know where all the important in and out burgers are there you are that that's what else you need to know Yeah, well the thing about LA too is that everybody drives you ever see the movie swingers where they all go in separate cars to parties

Mm-hmm That's exactly how that town works if people ever rode in the passenger seat of another car in LA I think you can actually get a ticket for that And it would also take like you know 80% of the cars off the road. If anyone, you know, their HOV lane is like one driver and a bag of groceries, and then you get the HOV lane. Everyone should ride motorcycles in LA.

A lot of people do. A lot of people do, because they can lane split in California. That's really cool. I wish we had that here. Not that I ride a motorcycle or anything, but I like opening my door in the middle of traffic. Okay, what is that?

Why do people get upset about lane splitting? No, I don't know. I don't get upset. Yes, you do though. No, I don't. I don't. But there's a reaction when you're sitting in traffic and a motorcycle goes down the middle of two cars,

splitting lanes, hence where the term comes from. Maybe you get angry. I don't. Maybe she have the hot for one. I think Bernie's right. I think you do get angry. I think people in general get angry I'm not saying you got specifically. I'm saying I think they feel like that person's getting over But in the end that person's just reducing traffic levels for everyone. They're doing us all a favor and it's legal And it's legal. Yeah, it's there's a reason why it's legal is they want people to do it. Yeah, get a goddamn motorcycle

You know and go down the middle of traffic. Makes sense to me. Hell yeah. Absolutely. With authority. And plus, you know, you can complain about traffic all you want until you see traffic in foreign countries. Woohoo. And that is, that gets a little ridiculous, man.

Like some of those videos online about Indian traffic jams, where street lights are just kind of, you know, they're there, but they're just kind of pretty lights and that's it. Yeah, when I was in Kuwait, stop signs and traffic lights are just kind of you know they're there but they're just kind of pretty lights and that's it Yeah, when I was in Kuwait Stop signs and traffic lights are suggestions. Yeah, I require nice. It's pretty yeah Have you ever seen videos of the of traffic in North Korea? North Korea. Yeah, they don't have traffic is the point but they have cars well And that's another point they build giant roads for very few cars and since they have a lot of trouble with electricity and power, they don't have street lights.

They have women in like little police uniforms out in the middle of every intersection, like pointing and telling cars so they can go and when they can stop. Whoa. They're peel directing traffic. Yeah, because they don't have power for street lights. That's what we should do. That would employ some people. Get them out there. I mean, I, I, how many times are you sitting in a red light when there's no traffic in the direction you're just sitting there in your car idling? That's right. You know, waiting for your green light, you'd like to have a person there going, go ahead. Take easy.

Move on. Forget this light. We're humans. I mean, you were people we connect. You keep going. I got this. I did that yesterday without the help of a person in the intersection. I would just I just lost. I wasn't messing with the radio. I wasn't using my phone I was looking straight ahead and I thought wow that dude's J-walking. I'm gonna hit him. Oh no wait I'm running a red light dude. I do that so much I was I was at 16 cars. I drove between cars. I'll be on my way to like your house like your old house over on You know like Austin that area. Uh-huh and I'll wake up and way to like your house, like your old house over on, you know, like Austin that area. Uh-huh.

And I'll wake up and view to have no idea how I got there. I used to do that when I would drive. If I got near my house, I would always end up at my house. I'm like, I'm always going home. Yeah. Why did I make this right turn? It's like gravity. It's just drawing you in. But I don't do that as much as I used to.

Like when I first started driving. I had bigger problems with that when I first started driving like getting in those little pathways You know, I guess now I just drive everywhere constantly doing goddamn errands You know, it's like if you get the phone call from your wife or your girlfriend If you know how to life and she's like are you about to leave work always say no or say yes But I'm already in our neighborhood or whatever, because God damn, there comes the list, right? I need you to go to bedbath and beyond, and I need you to get bamboo placemats, and not bamboo, that's the one,

that's the one that's the best. Come on. And I was in bedbath and beyond the other day, and I mean, beyond really just means kitchen, right? I mean, the better in the bathroom, the kitchen section, why do they call it beyond? It's cashier. It sounds cool, Because the kitchen doesn't start with a bee. There you go. That's a good point. Bedbathing kitchen doesn't end up in all the Adam Sandloom movies.

Bedbathing beyond, that's where you go. You beat me to it. Click wouldn't happen with bedbathing kitchen. I like the concept of finding, like, you could find really crazy shit, like extra-dimensional stuff in the audience. That would be great. You could go figure a Christopher Walk Walken so when selling it. That do it's extra dimensional to begin with. This is broadcast and people listen to this, but I want you to know that when we talk in the office, factual accuracy, not important to me at all.

Yeah, right? I just just streamed consciousness. Christopher Walken was in, yeah, Christopher Walken was in Star Wars and this is the story that happened. Hey, you know, you was in Star Wars. And this is the story that happened. Hey, you know, you just said Star Wars. Let me think about something. Then it makes you think about Star Wars. Yeah, it did. What a fucking coincidence. The other day I read a story on Slashdot. This didn't get picked up. This did not get picked up on dig. But apparently when Skylab burned up and re-entered the Earth's atmosphere back in 1979, you know, there are bits and pieces of it throwing all over Western Australia.

And this town in Western Australia fined NASA $400 for littering because Skylab fell on their town. Fuck them! Three satellites, dude! Why are they charging us? Apparently, like, it's NASA never paid the fine. Did we get it back? No, I think they put like the remaining pieces up on top of a bar. So that shit don't even...

Did they really? I think so, I saw remaining pieces up on top of a bar. So that shit on either. I did they really I think so I thought what an awesome bar and So I guess like some DJ just found out about it and paid NASA's 30-year-old $400 living fine I think he's there may or now. Did you pay it with interest? No, no Well, the dollars dropped so far. He actually went up in value of the dollar the dollar we do By the way, if something lands in Western Australia, how the fuck do you tell? Because everything in Australia is on the eastern coast Sydney and Melbourne all that and then Perth which is way the hell out in the Western coast

There's really nothing in the middle of Australia In tournament camps. Yeah, what ever is it? In tournament camps They lock people up there. You know, like the version of Australia. You better be careful what you say. They'll get you If you're listening from Central to Western Australia, I apologize for where you live. You know, we apologize for where you live. Al Franken's gonna run for Senate.

In Western Australia. You know, people got really upset about that. And in the comments of our last drunk tank post, there was a very heated political debate. I don't know if you kept up on it. Yeah, people like talk about politics. What was the debate about? Uh,, people, people like talk about politics. What was, what was the debate about? Uh, uh, the people were debating Al Franken's politics.

First of all, I was wrong. He lived in Minnesota for a very long time. He was born in New York and moved to Minnesota and lived there for a long period of time. So he did not just move there to get his Senate seat as I was insinuating last week. So Al Franken, we know you're listening. We're sorry. And by insinuating last week. So Al Franken we know you're listening. We're sorry and by insinuating I mean saying directly

But we still like Jesse Venture more. No way dude. I bought all Al Franken's books and everything. Did you like it? Let's I'll bring in the new Snigglets. Oh, it's one of those people What you wouldn't where is this like a wrap-up show? Yeah. Like the first 20 podcasts or whatever. 13. So, you know, you talk about reading Slash. Right? Yeah.

I have, I won't say on what website, I subscribe to Slash.feed, but it's a certain website. And I get Slash.updates. I forgot how great that site is. It's a good site. It's a great site. And they have lots of cool information. The people who post on slash dot are actually intelligent people. You won't see any tech speak on slash dot ever. And they had a really cool article just to the day. Like you said, what was the satellite you said

that crashed in Skylab? The space station. The space station. Did you know they're going to decommission and deorbit the international space station in 2016? I also read that on slash dot. I read that on slash dot too. What the fuck? Why are we? We spent like 20 years building the motherfucker to finish it and deorbit it after seven. I thought the whole point of this thing is that it's going

to go up there. Why would they need to deorbit something? Why not just keep it in orbit? Probably to save money on the maintenance and the constant upkeep. Maintenance? I guess so. I'll say what's, what can a manes you You need space. You know constantly having a shuttle stuff up. That's not a harsh environment space. It's just radiation. Yeah for the micro-media. For some reason the farm just didn't pick off,

pick off like they thought it would out there. You know I would assume I would have assumed that the space agent would just be riddled with holes by this point for meteors being outside. It's outside the atmosphere right right? Completely outside the atmosphere? Yeah, I believe so. So, you know, I mean, you always have this idea that the atmosphere protect, or I have the idea that the atmosphere protects us from these constant meteor barrages, but maybe that's not the case. I mean, I don't think there's barrages, but there's definitely lots of objects, but,

you know, it's like we've talked about in the past space is so vast. Yeah. But the odds of two objects colliding are very minuscule. Yeah, unless you're in a low Earth orbit, where everything is. So like two particles of dust colliding in your city, basically. Yeah, two specific ones, two very specific particles. I heard that happened last week, actually. No.

I read about it on statesmen.com. So did anyone play a battle for the 1943 last night? No, no no no I I'm not playing shortly after we we and by we I mean the fucking awesome Xbox community unlocked the Coral C map Why'd you stop playing I I only played for like half an hour left because I played the Coral C map That was kind of a big fuck you I'm gonna let down yeah well you know I will give the Coral C map credit for teaching me how to play a play.

I didn't really know how to do it very well, Torel. Yeah, you didn't need the Curlsie map to do that for you. I'm gonna do that in that tutorial. So I went back to Fallout instead. I was like a scratch effect. It was totally worth it. Fallout and I had a beautiful evening together. So you're like level 11 now?

I think I saw I think 11 or 12. Yeah, I love a twice last night. That's cool. It's pretty cool You know, I don't like the brag, but it's very cool. I'm cool for doing it. Yeah, you took the greedy achievement or the greedy perks I did I was a little drunk last night. I wasn't paying attention and I took that perk that makes you install level Which as soon as I did it was like, oh, that's probably a dumb idea. But I'm gonna let you hit level what? I think I hit 10 and then I hit 11 and went straight to 12, I think, or something like that.

You burned an achievement thing by doing that too. What's that? Well, you could have used that to level up. Oh, yeah. You know, to get the achievement and then back it up. Fallout is one of the rare games that achievements are really far on the back of my mind when I'm playing it. I just have so much fun playing it that I'm not even thinking about them.

And I figure I have enough save games where if I fuck anything up I can always go back. How noble. I've got like nothing noble about it. It's just awesome game. You're in touch with the spirit of the game. But I'm not the spirit of the wasteland. But I'm like I'm like a level, I guess 11 or 12 and I have like 75 saves so far.

Yeah, those things will fill up your hard drive buddy. Yeah, you're on a memory card. Come on off stage. 512 memory card, I filled it. Yeah, so I had to empty it out. Wow, just with Fallout saves. Just with Fallout saves. That's nuts.

I also went back to that train yard. I got a billion emails from people saying that I witnessed that random event or whatever. Whatever Firelands would be there. Firelands would be there. And so I went back and sure enough, I had missed it. Fire lance would be there. Fire lance would be there. And so I went back and sure enough, I had missed it. Fire lance was sitting there floating in the air,

waiting for me. Now, you know what, this is almost a year old game at this point. I know they have DLC coming out. Coming out next month. Let's go back to talking about Battlefield 1943. Get some more racing game. OK.

I just want to say, before we wrap that up, though, whether it's your PZTA, drops August 3rd. How is 8th? No, August 3rd. I thought it was the 8th also. I just got it updated this morning. Oh, sweet. It looks cool too.

Yeah. Can't wait. That's going to be the final DLC for Fallout. Who do they sent you to screenshots, Gus? Yeah. And then you showed them to me and they were like, Screens, can we talk about this? Yeah, yeah.

It's for public. Okay. They had screenshots of like being on the mothership and like fighting aliens and stuff. Fuck yeah, dude. I said, I didn not gonna catch up. Anything else? No, nothing.

There was that one cool shot where you're standing over what looks like a cannon pointed at earth and you can see the whole earth through the bottom of the spaceship. Oh snap. Through space, it's incredible. Space cannon. Yeah, space cannon. It's like the Star Wars. Yeah, just like the ISS.

That's what they should build on the ISS, a big fucking cannon. How do you know they haven't? I haven't been to the ISS? I would point it at people. I'm like, fuck you, I got space cannon. How do you know they haven't I have been to the ISS? I would point it to people I'm like fuck you like I space cannon point at the hot for words chick that a that fire works is awesome gun I bet it is sets motherfuckers on fire. We're bringing our so jealous you why don't you guys you guys can get it? I'm sure what's that it's random. Oh, that sucks. Did you get it? I have a good. You just said you got it. Oh, I'm a bitch. I already burned through all my ammo on it

You used it last night on the G&R mission. You're fucking used at level 12. Yeah, dude. You just said he got it. Oh, I'm a bitch. I already burned through all my ammo on it. I used it last night on the G&R mission. You're fucking used to that level 12? Yeah, dude. You know what? If you get something in a video game, just use it. Don't save it. You know, just use it.

I can go to the alien craft ship and get another hundred rounds or whatever for it. Oh, you have an humanly craft ship. I only had like 24 because it's all over the place. I thought you had 100 from the... No, no, no. I'll go get them at some point. Sorry I'm sorry I totally missed you saying that because I was trying to get back to battlefield in 1943 but congratulations I'm a unique weapon in Fallout 3. That's awesome. It's exciting and

Anyway speaking about a film 1943 awesome awesome man, you know I talked a lot of shit about that game for the first couple days because I couldn't play you really did man But I would just sit in here smiling and playing No, we weren't we're smiling and trying to load the fucking game. Once you get in there, you're dead. No one was playing, but god damn. That game was so much fucking fun. That was really weird.

And, but it's not necessarily a bad experience because you were trying to get into the game and it was clearly overloaded on the first day that they made it available. First like three days. Yeah, but I mean, the first day it was like impossible. But if you did get in a game, it worked great. It wasn't super lag here or anything like that. Once you were in your set and you'd keep getting

in the new games every time. Yeah, you stayed you didn't like get ejected after a game. You could stay there for seven hours and get your spot. You just had to make sure you were there to make to hit A and not get out of kick right after 60 seconds. I had played the hell out of that game. How many hours have you played it? I think according to the stats in there about 24 hours. Oh, right after 60 seconds I had played the hell out of that game how many hours have you played it uh I think according to the stats in there about 24 hours. Holy shit. Which is play time in a week. Yeah that's like yeah that's like three hours a day on average a little bit more. I think I've only played like six or seven. Yeah I'm around there like maybe ten. And I matched last about 15 minutes

but to me, that was. I kind of got out of video games for a while. Like I grew up, you know, playing really for me, it was like a Tari and clickovision and stuff like that. And then I played some Commodore games to PC games, Apple games, uh, and got out of it. Like I wasn't a big part of like that whole NES, Super Nintendo generation. I got back in around the N64 and started again, started playing games again. And that was about the battlefield 1942 came out a few years after that. And that was that game was huge. Oh yeah, dude. That was I mean,

there was a time when every night we would get together after work at our tech job. And we would play 1942 and the same demo of a soldier fortune over and over and over again all night. I have soldier fortune two. Those are the two games. I remember that rooftop level. We played over and over again on soldier 42. We played sold that and we played 1942. And it's not like for about a year.

And then Bernie and I played the rainbow six games. But I don't think you ever got into those. No, I was never big in the rainbow six. You know what? Me and Gus playing rainbow six was kind of like you and me playing girl. Same thing. Yeah, same thing. It's kind of like the game that I played with Gus.

You know, we played so much Rainbow Six that it gave me a hemorrhoid. That's true. True story. He had to come into work and tell me that I was his manager back then and say he couldn't come in because... I couldn't sit at my job anymore. I tried. I was there for like an hour and I was like god damn, I cannot sit and do my job.

At the time I was living on this apartment with concrete floors and my computer was on the floor because I was too cheap to buy a computer desk and sitting for hours on end on the concrete floor playing Rainbow Six is not good on the butthole. No, not really. And as a manager at a company when your employees comes in and say is either having a female problem or be a dude and he's got a hemorrhoid, it's instant. Okay, that's great. Don't take care of yourself.

Yeah. I just wanna lay on my stomach for like fucking three days. All right, all right. We got it. We got it. You're butt hurt, we understand. We got the hot forage, it's coming to give us a damn homin' in for an employee or something.

Back to less disgusting things. Gus, did you get the best squad achievement yet? No, I have not. Out of field. No. That's a glitch that's achievement. It is. It's bugged. I'm positive. I've been best squad on every map at this point. Well, you can even see the the the postage stamp little tell you essentially which is this is to get you get in a squad in the game and you can have up to four people in your squad and you basically you don't really have anything other than that you can spawn together right and you can talk to each other well is that who you talk to in the game and invoicing yeah and your squad leader can you know assign locations to attack and defend and stuff yeah if you don't have what you can

talk to each other so that's way more valuable but um and then then at the end of the game they will award top squad and it seems weird how they assign that. That seems bugged myself. I think it's just point total amongst the squad. Yeah, but that's not always the case. Because I've been in games where top squad was one dude who had a lower score than me and I'm in a squad. Hmm, maybe it's average score?

I don't know. Who knows. Anyway, that keeps up bugs in it. Like when you go to leaderboards and you compare with other people, what's your, once you get past the first page, all bits are off. Yeah, the game has flaws,

but it's a great game. It's a fun fun game. And if anybody's having trouble getting that best squad achievement, everything I've read online and from my personal experience, the best way to get the best squad in every map achievement is not to be in a squad at all. I got it for coming in,

I got it for coming in fifth place on Wake Island. Not in a squad. Well, congratulations. It just popped up. And just so you know, I got it, I was in a squad and I had gotten top squad. Dozens of times it felt like on all the maps and Erojima was the one I was in top squad the most. And then one time I got top squad in Erojima and got it on that round.

And it was probably my, you know, eighth time getting it on EOGMA. So there's really no explanation for it. I'm going to RVBTO this weekend. This is my first trip to Tio Toronto and the Tio event. What should I expect? I still have not given up on going. Yeah. Even with everything, RVBTO is an event I always want to go to.

And it's always right before Comic Con when we have about a billion other things going on. So it's been difficult for me to bust away or mat to bust away. Yeah, it seems like they really put the dates back this year. Yeah, they're right there. Literally. Yeah. But what are you asking you? What should you do?

Yeah, what should I expect? Having never been there. It's awesome. Is there any places I should eat or anything like that? No, they'll have everything. They do everything. I mean, they got the whole thing planned from morning to night. So... Expect lots of Tim Hortons.

It's Toronto. You should call Ed. I'm not good with plans. Call Ed and talk to him. Ed's doing a new album right now. Oh, I don't want to plug him in the studio. Yeah, I don't know. I mean, you just stop by.

You never know. I mean, it's kind of that environment where you know, just taking a month to break them away and taking a month to lunch or something like that. Yeah. Taking a month to date. I was reading, I was reading that they're recording their first album without Steve or as a quartet. Is that the right way to say that?

Sure. And they have a big green egg in the studio outside and they just like basically cook meat all day and record songs and go out and have ribs. You say you have a big green egg? You know what that is. It's a special kind of grill. It's a big ceramic like egg, like a big green looking ceramic grill, right?

Yeah. And so most of this thing is like you can set it to a wood burning grill or I guess you know it's not gas. In charcoal or wood or whatever you want to put in in there and the air flow is like just right because it's egg-shaped and you can set the temperature right and you could cook things for like eight hours 12 hours I've never heard of this thing. Oh yeah. Bernie was was gonna buy one for a while that's why I know about it was always like he always had a window open on his desktop.

Hmm. I was always like almost pulling you know the thing that Bernie does where he's convinced he's gonna get something and he spends a month looking at it and then forgets about it in the zone. Now, I am a very thorough consumer when it comes to mind. The best is when you do that for airplane tickets. Yes. And then we have to go somewhere and we don't have plane tickets.

Yeah. I hold plane tickets for reservations and I hold them thinking, well, we might not need them. And then they expire and we have to buy more chips That's why I ended up having actually to take over travel for the company. Is that why? Yes, because you weren't booking us. You just stare at the stare at the holding screen. Who saw moon? I didn't see it. Have you seen it? No. God damn it. I want to see it. I want to see it Jason saw it. We should go see it while we're at Comic Con. Yeah Yeah, I guess it. I'm gonna see moon and Harry Potter. Potter you know I just learned about moon what's that it is directed by

David Bowie's son Sam Bowie No Jim Bowie the guy the guy would have ended the knife you know what I found out about moon what not actually filmed on the moon Wow, that's fucking amazing. I don't know what happened Detroit it's being a moon did anybody see a Bruno? No, no I don't know what happened. Boop. Ha ha ha ha ha. It's filmed in Detroit. It's being a moon, did anybody see Bruno? No. No.

I've got to really have much interest in that. Oh, I'm really not that excited about it. I'm sure I'll love it if I haven't seen it. Same here. The marketing killed me. I just, like, I got so overexposed. Well, the problem is, I haven't seen the moon. I haven't really heard about it, but I'm sure it suffers

from the same problem Borat did, where they can only show you about 30 seconds of that movie on TV without getting in trouble. Yeah, all the reviews are fantastic for it But I just like every time I went to a website for the last four months. I feel like I've been staring at a Bruno ad It just beat me down. Yeah, it was always that same shot of Bruno in the Later hosemite. Yeah, look over shoulder. Yeah, yeah, it was constant It was constant. It was it was like the only image on the front page of dig for about a month and a half. Yeah, and all my celebrity gossip sites too. Yeah, you read a lot of. All day long, I gotta be up on the pop culture for the comic. Got a lampoon stuff. celebrity sites as a and just to find that as being work. You did. Justifying is the key word there.

Absolutely. Because Jeff does two things now. He does the comic and he does a cheap and hard not just two things. I have those little some carvers and blue. Yeah, main content, main content stuff that you're like to lead on. That's what you do. And it allows you to want to regassive sites all day and play video games all day. Dude, this goes back to drunk gamers.

When Gus and I sat down and said, we want to make a website. What do we like? And we like getting drunk and we like playing video games all day. Dude, this goes back to drunk gamers. When Gus and I sat down and said, we wanna make a website, what do we like? And we like getting drunk, and we like playing video games. What can I do with your office so that I can watch porn and jackoff all day? This is an angolin, just start working. I'm up with a fucking porn news site, dude. James is gonna start doing liquor reviews next. Shit.

This is the sound of the song. This is the sound of the song. And David Bowie's son, apparently his name at one point was like Z-Bop Manuel or something you know what it is. Yeah. Like moon unit Zappa or something. And he changed his name to Duncan Jones. Duncan Jones.

Duncan Jones. I look up his name right now on my... Is that the first movie he's directed, Moon? I don't know. I just didn't even know. I just found this out in the way of the office today that Duncan Jones is David Roy son I guess in a man, this is He was also known as

Zoe Bowie the IWIWI I'm always curious about names of domains for websites that they pick. Okay. And where does snopes come from? Does that mean something? I always thought it was like a playoff of snipes. I've just played with a snoops. I thought it was a playoff of popes.

Because they don't exist. Where's the hot forward chicks when they're not there? Oh God, I really have like this. I can be a new thing like the etymology of domain names. I mean, it would make sense. Like we talk about possibly even changing the achievement hunter name and domain to something that's a little bit more palatable and can be typed easier. Didn't you have a insanely difficult to find anything? You did you had an alternate name for it that sounded kind of gay. What was it? Say it. Say it. Say it.

I'm trying to think of something funnier than the real domain. Say it. Oh, it's funny. Say you make me laugh. I'm not a bird. I still own the domain achieve men That's like a motivational book or a day dudes. It's like a Game man. Yeah, achievement Anybody's interested hit me up I think I've got a register for the two years. Yeah, but it is I I heard at one point about Seven years ago that every domain name that was four characters or less had already been registered every possible combination I just heard a weird statistic. Uh-oh, you know, so I'm fully got big here and then went away

There's nobody gave a shit. What are you talking about? No, I'm saying yes, but uh, come on, let's sire. I was actually saying thinking about how it went away, but it's coming back. Right. Well, you know, it's becoming a big problem right now in Australia because this is flu season in Australia. And this is now a global pandemic, right? One thing that they've noticed about this disease statistically is that it kills fat people. Whoa. Yep. That's that's who's most at risk for this and they don't know why. So you're walking around with a giant bull's eye and you're telling me right now. I don't want to put myself in the winter in a higher risk group. Was this like biological warfare engineered to kill Americans is that what we're discovering here it's an interesting thought it's a very

interesting thought black helicopters yeah I mean if you're gonna hit the heaviest people in the world you're gonna hit Americans and some Owens and some Owens Houston's about to be very empty and Annville's they can catch diseases so swine flu will be back in the winter. Yeah, and we'll we'll wonder like oh What were you know why I thought this one away? It was a big deal and suddenly everyone you know It'll be in November and everyone will be panicking again and wearing masks and all that garbage I couldn't buy fucking hand soap at the store when people were scared of swine flu this last time. I'm sure Matt was hoarding it What is that parallel something we've all read a science fiction story where a disease kind of came around and

Everyone got all hyped about it at first and then it went away and then it came back big World War Z world war Z. That's exactly right. Oh, yeah, there was that that was a really prescient Channel or chapter for that guy where he talked about how the zombies kind of perked up everyone labeled it African rabies And then it was suppressed and everyone just ignored it It became kind of the background noise for the world Until it reached that critical mass where it was everywhere all at once and the world was taken over by zombies Great book great book. I think we may have mentioned it a few times in the podcast We may have mentioned it once or twice.'s like you know it's like the new

Bible you know I really hope that we get a chance to play Leifer dead to a comic con next week yeah me too I'm gonna run a pet so bad if I emailed Val asking if we could and they ignored me did you email that other dude that I emailed the other dude and he ignored me too what other dude some other dude at EA who does marketing is having like some special event and so EA is releasing all of our stuff basically well they I think they're publishing Lefforded 2 on the 360 is that correct uh-huh so do we're not gonna get to play it does well they're not replying to my emails I guess they we don't do anything in video games so you know we're not we're not videolying to my emails. I guess we don't do anything in video games, so we're not video game journalists.

It's like those kids at Katak. Yeah, I guess so. So we don't get to play video games. You mean when they go copy, paste, press release? Submit. God, maybe that's what we need to start doing. Maybe that's what I get all the press releases. Should I just start fucking reprinting them?

Sure. When they send you a picture of their swag, just put it up on the page and say, this is the stuff that's gonna be in the collectors edition of the game, go buy it and just pass it off as news just copy and paste it go for it Then we'll all be playing left for death three fucking we can we can release some mediocre content to you know What valve should have probably released left for dead is downloadable content anyway for free my opinion Now the bitterness kicks in let's go mother fucker

Jesus, you know, we talked to them, that engine, what's source engine is great for machinima. And we had talked to them a couple of different times about doing something in source for machinima. They're just, you know, they're just not interested. They're not, you know, they're ignoring his kind of their MO. Well, they do what they do, you know, yeah, only do the hell out of it. They do what they do very well.

Yeah, I'm sure they're busy. We did, we did, we did, we did. I gotta say this though, I really like the Gabe Newell, the lead guy there. Because remember when we wandered in to the, the valve office, I wasn't there on that trip. That was kind of interesting. That was kind of interesting where we wandered into the valve offices, you know, in the kind of the height of red versus Blue, just to say hello and meet them. And Gabe Newell came out of his office and just wandered into the conference room, you

know, not because it's not because we were there, but just like he saw people meeting in the conference room and thought, what are they talking about? I'll go in there. And as like this random dude walks in, it's Gabe Newell, the guy who made Half Life. That's awesome. Yeah, it was pretty cool. That a cool conference room too, it was all plywood. But it was done in a way Yeah, it was pretty cool. We had a cool conference room too, it was all plywood.

It was done in a way that was really, really cool. It was almost like you were inside a shipping crate because the whole thing was plywood. Was it? Was it a long school? It was a long school? Look, the plywood was stained in any way. What's that? No, like, it had like rivets and all this stuff in it.

Oh, okay, that's cool. Like, it was big, like, not like fancy rivets or anything, but those, just pure silver, like home-gipo bolts. Sure, not fancy rivets. But the way it looked was pretty. It was a store-bought rivets or anything, but those just pure silver like home Depot bolts sure not fancy rivets But the way it looks was really it was a store bought really cool really really cool sounds cool And they had a huge valve in their waiting room like this massive valve oil Derek valve, so it's pretty cool subtle but Welcome

Nice guys We want to play leopard and do it Comic-Con to touch on Something that we were talking about earlier with the etymology of domain names Gosh you told you were telling me you started to tell me a story this morning that I wanted to continue I'm at the etymology of certain video game companies names. Oh, yeah I didn't want to mention it because I wasn't sure I you know I haven't had a chance to fully research it and make sure it's legit. But I was reading a story about the origin of the name Kaleiko for the company that made, you know, Kaleiko Vision and video games way back when.

And apparently they used to sell shoe leather, so Kaleiko was short for Connecticut leather company. That bullshit. Really? That's what I read. I haven't I haven't verified it with independent source but read that this morning. I'm pretty sorry. I'm going nuts. Connecticut leather company. I just want Connecticut. C-O-N-I-S-On connect. I cut. Yeah connect that cut. Leather. Oh it's one of the recommended searches on Google must be true then yeah must be was an American company founded in 1932 by

Maurice Greenberg as Connecticut leather company it became it became a highly successful toy company in the 1980s known for its mass-produced versions of cabbage patch kids kids kids dolls and its video game consoles the Coleco tell star and Coleco vision. I didn't realize they did cabbage patch dolls. I learned that when I read the Connecticut Little country. That's a fucking powerhouse. The 80s powerhouse right there. It has clothes It's properties and brand name have been sold One who owns it now. I don't know if we can buy that. I'm sure Google

You're the Amazon might buy Netflix. I saw that but they're interested in it Somebody asked me on the site in my personal comment saying you guys talk about Netflix a lot on the podcast Is that a service that you would recommend? Absolutely right. I'll hands down. I've been recommending it for six years Netflix is my television now You know since I cancel cable I have Netflix streaming and Hulu and Amazon video on the man And that's it. If you have an Xbox, there's no question that you should have some level of a Netflix service just to get the streaming. Absolutely.

Yeah. I agree. Yeah. I think I use Netflix streaming on my Xbox every day. Every day I watch something. Yeah. Listen. Don't get me wrong if you have to choose

In your monthly budget between say a Rissertief sponsorship for a dollar 50 a month or a Netflix account for 1995 Clearly you want to stick with the Rissertief sponsorship, though. Yeah, that goes that's saying. Absolutely Listen, let's not be idiots probably for the for the price of one month of Netflix and get a year of Rissertief That's a good point. In 2005, River West brands, a Chicago-based brand revitalization company, reintroduced Coleco to the marketplace. In late 2006, they introduced the Coleco Sonic, a handheld system containing 20 Sega master system and Sega Game Gear games.

That makes sense. Why wouldn't you release Coleco Vision games on that? Yeah, Sega games. Sega game gear What who put that deal together? We're gonna revitalize the Coleco brand and you Sega games for it We're gonna revitalize the Coleco brand with game gear games. Who has the cabbage patch franchise now because my daughter has a cabbage Flash stall. Sorry to interrupt. That's another name that was on the list. Sega It was a company called Service Games. Really? Yeah. They, I guess the company started in Hawaii selling

pinball machines to military bases, then moved to Tokyo because after World War II, it started in Hawaii in 1940, moved to Tokyo after World War II because of military presence there, selling pinball machines and then rebranded themselves to service games and now they were Sega. So Sega started as an American company. Yes. It's before World War II and then after World War II moved to Japan. That's crazy. Really? Just thinking about that when you're playing Battlefield 1943, I'm helping make Sega. That's what I did. I'm playing an EA game that's gonna lead to the creation of Sega Sonic the Hedgehog you know we did have a

conversation about we did have a conversation about actual D-Day yeah we did and how you know it's hundreds of thousands of troops that are pitted in battle on these beaches and you know two generations later we're playing into video games yeah and how how appropriate is that pretty inappropriate I'm like wow this is great you know we're like ha ha you killed me now I'm gonna kill you that dude's like flew off hey we killed Russia we get a new map new well yeah we got 43 million killed I wonder how many World War 2 vets play call a duty Duty. Yeah, probably not probably not a lot my grandfather All of my grandfather's in Vietnam the other one was in was on was there at D day and

I feel Vietnam sucked And they don't that franchise you rail fast. They don't like to talk about you know those days I've never heard of an incident though of veteran those days. I've never heard of an incident though of veteran seeing a war-based game and having any kind of negative reaction to it. I don't mean like some kind of you know state or trance. I mean a protest kind of a thing. Sure. Have you? No. As a matter of fact, my grandfather who's in Vietnam owns a PS2 and he plays SSX all the time. So maybe he just doesn't play war games. I think I met that grandfather. Yeah. I think I met that grand father.

Yeah, I think I met him the first time he ever saw SSX. Yeah. It was a... he was so impressed with SSX that he went home and got it. He played it a bunch. Sequals to Battlefield 1942 were the road to Rome and secret weapons of World War II. I said... Okay.

I said secret weapons had loofedaffe the other day. I don't yeah That was a bit of a sarts game. Yeah, but great games I think we're the sound Xbox live Just like they would like they did monkey. I fucking dude. I've been playing monkey Island all morning to make an achievement video I I was a console kid so I missed out on that incredibly boring phase of PC the point and click No, that stuff was awesome. I mean at the time that stuff was awesome. No, well I did stay in that time dude. You know, I read Interact do you want to touch the shovel? Why not? I was reading about monkey on when I saw you playing it this morning

Were you playing like some kind of insult sword fighting thing? Yeah, you know, I saw that and I was reading about monkey on this morning And I read that or since Scott card wrote the insults for the insult sword fighting really portion of the game I will say that it's it's the voice acting is great that in the original game. Yeah Obviously and and it seems fairly cleverly written. It's just it just moves in a much slower pace than you used to on the next box Yes, especially after playing battlefield 1943 for a few days, Right. Hey, why are we playing that right now? You know, I played Sam and Max, which came out a couple of weeks ago. Same kind of game. It was very well received whenever it came out on the PC. And I had never played it, so I thought I'll download it. Same thing. It's just point on different objects on this on the page and try to get to do funny stuff and it's not interesting at all.

Not interesting. If you want to play a modern version that play the Panier K games, you know, that are done well. Like they have a combat system, they're fun, they're well-written, they're a much better version of those kinds of games. Absolutely. That Panier K game is a lot of fun. There's a reason it'll make those games anymore. I mean, they just fell out of favor. Yeah. The Panier K game is good though. Well, you're're not like you're not trying to find random objects on the screen to point click and that's kind of dope. You know, action now you have way more than like through 20 by 240 pixels on your monitor. Yeah, one impossible to find stuff now.

One cool thing about that secret among Allen game though is if you hit back at any point, it the screen reverts to the original to the way it looked like in 1991 when the game came out. It's all blocky and 8 bitty and it goes over to text overlays and you can zoom in and out, like in the middle of conversations came out. It's all blocky and 8-bitty and it goes over to text overlays. And you can zoom in and out, like in the middle of conversations and stuff. It's actually kind of fun to see. You have a cool. What's that?

Yeah, it looked pretty cool. Yeah, yeah. It's pretty awesome. I'd like to see that actually. Yeah. I like that historical stuff. Yeah, and they do it really well. And it's like flawless.

Like, you'll like zoom in in the middle of a conversation, and they'll pop the right text up. And then you can be like mid-sentence pop out And they'll just like the transitions really great. So if you were gonna recommend a game from say The 90s or earlier to end up on Xbox live arcade maybe a cold hit. What would you want to see end up there? Populous populous. That's pretty good. That's a interesting one. Yeah, or how about original sim city? Original sim city to D1 Yeah, just the planning one. I have a lot of fun memories of stuff that involved flying like descent and

Red Baron. Yeah, I'm a minimal. I'm very sent like we talked about secret weapons of the Luftwaffe out of this world Would be a great one for Xbox ride. Okay. Yeah What was that game you played that seemed like the sequel to out of this world? I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, You can download that game for free and play it's still fun, but battlefield 1940's read is a big-time game changer Yeah, it is Because that game is 15 bucks and it really is a full retail game It's you definitely get yeah, $60 value out of that game. There's no single player, but who cares dude already seeing people complain I'm just saying that that I wouldn't call it a full retail experience not a $60 game I think it is I think it is too. I played that game way more than I had played.

A lot of games I paid $60 for. I really have. Look at most FPSs. I mean, like Call of Duty or Halo, you play through the single player once, and then you spend the rest of your life playing multiplayer. The single player is really just a primer to get you ready for multiplayer, I think.

Yeah. I mean, Shadowrun was full retail. That's true. That was just multiplayer. How did you have it? How did they do? I wish that game had done better. If it was a pretty fun game in the balance system, I thought Shadowrun was full retail. That's true. That was full. That was just multiplayer. I wish that they do. I wish that game had done better If it was a pretty fun game in the balance system, I thought it was pretty interesting I it was weird. They just did the studio was shutting down as they were releasing the game so they weren't gonna market it Yeah, nobody really knows about Shadowrun. They say that this red faction is great for multiplayer

I just haven't had any time to play it. Yeah, everybody I know that's played red faction says it's fantastic And it's like super addictive multiplayer, but you know if we were actual gaming news in like a real podcast We would all play different games. We all play the same guy We all fall out. We all play battlefield 1943. There's lots of great games up there There's like we never talk about because we just don't play it. All right, you know what? Well, I guess comic-con next week after I come back from Comic-Con. I'm gonna buy a PS3 game. Nobody gives a shit I'm gonna talk about it. What what do you get a buy? I'm gonna buy Uncharted. Wait, wait, let me mark my account I'm gonna buy a year and a half old PS3 game

And I'll talk about that how great it is. This has been it. We've mentioned Panier game many times this this podcast But Tyco just went off on home too, which I thought oh really yeah, yeah It was weird to hear him say that one versus a hundred in the Xbox is like put home was striving to be. Yeah, I guess. He was making a point that the Avatar finally feels like it has a place in the Xbox, which I don't know, man. The Natal thing kind of worries me because I just worry, you know, the whole Avatar thing.

It really hasn't done anything with the avatars yet. It's kind of cool. Well, I guess there's that cart race are coming out, you know, and uh, I'm saying it has anything yet. Yeah, you know, it still has potential to do this cool stuff. And one versus 100 he's saying is the first real place for the avatar to be on the Xbox. And I agree with that. I can see that you know does a The scenic games is your avatar I don't think so. No, Uno does and I thought the new one live Kingdom for kelpings does and Uno does. Oh, oh, just give them for kelpings really Uh-huh. There's a whole section on arcade that you can go to that are listed as Avatar games

Oh, and they went back and added it the The functionality is some really old game like hardwood hearts and hardwood spades, but you know, I it's just not overall it kind of has made my friendless harder to navigate now. I end up now staying away from the dashboard and staying more in the pop-up jewel. Yeah, I spend all my time there too. The mini dash. You know what I mean? I find that much easier to navigate it looks cool I like the dashboard I kind of complained about it being slow for me last week, but I like it I like the blades. I like the way you navigate

I kind of wish I would go to default as my Xbox instead of the spotlight channel But I understand why they want to have the spotlight. Yeah, I wish you could customize that a little more like I wish on the my Xbox You could customize like I want to have like a quick launch revival battlefield 1943 there and you know I want to be able to arrange those tiles the way I want it. Yeah that would be nice. That would be nice but they're working on it and I can't certainly can't complain about the design of the 360. Fuck no dude. Maybe some hardware stuff but yeah they've done a great job with the design of it. Yeah for sure. I can't tell you how much I love having a game that I can just like battlefield 1943 that I can launch from the dashboard and

It's an awesome game, you know in my opinion a full retail game. You don't think so, but it really still a great game I'm not discounting the game still a ton of fun. It's not a sixty dollar game. Oh, I don't know Bernie's put 24 hours into the game That's more than you put into a lot of retail game. Yeah, yeah, it's still only three three maps and like if that was a $60 shell game we would be complaining. What is it? I wouldn't I mean what's it matter? How many maps are if it's three maps They give you a $60 value as opposed to 10 maps that don't I mean no way You're right. That's right. That's right. If it was a $60 game I'd be like this. What the fuck? It's also a little different like people are gonna say well Lepured to is only gonna have four maps

It's totally different the battlefield maps are like well four maps with five levels right. Yeah, let her dead splits up their maps and makes different levels And they're too cool to talk to me plus it's four maps though. I still think I still think valve should have released left for dead And I'm gonna stick to that story until they're nice to me Should sign signs some kind of petition. Makes change happen. We make no bones about it. We can easily be bought. We just have to show up and or set us a free copy of the game. Every game we've ever gotten a free copy of,

greatest gamer ever made. Dude, please, the time sweeper. Blinks of time sweeper. That's the best game I've ever played about a time traveling cat with a vacuum on its back. That fucking, you remember that French MMO they let us into? Way back in the truck, gamers days. Jesus, I love that game. I don't remember what it was called or what it was about. vacuum on its back that fucking you remember that French in in the know they let us into way back in the truck gamers days she's a

I love that game I don't remember what it was called or what it was about but they gave it to us and I loved it you know I will say this though got our highest rating ever yeah that 12 out of 10 that blinks the time sweeper game that they sent us for free we have mentioned that fuck yeah dude how many times millions so if they ever put blinks the time sweeper on Xbox live original or Xbox originals bang You know download they get 15 bucks back out of me blinks the time sweeper is kind of responsible for starting red versus blue then you try to risk your teeth It is kind of yeah, thank you see what kind of great things can be caused by giving us free stuff

It's so weird that you mentioned that because just last night I looked up the original red versus blue post on Halo dot bungee dot org just last night I looked up the original Red versus Blue post on halo.bungee.org. And it was all drunk gamers. You remember the drunk gamers guys? They're back and they're making this Red versus Blue thing. And we had actually posted the trailer to Red versus Blue almost a year before we put up. I think we posted that trailer in August of 02. Yep. And you're right. It came out in April, 03. Yep. So you're right. So it came out in April 03. Yep. So it was a long time to make that first episode. Like, man, we just stopped.

We just weren't going to do it. We had other stuff going on, you know, had the idea. It's so funny, too. I was like, trying to look at the evolution of it. And there's no mention of machinima at all. Like as Red versus Blue is what machinima is, before we even knew what machinima was, that what we're doing was called machinima,

and I was trying to find like, what was the first instance of the word machinima being used on halo.bunji.org, and I had to like drill for a while to find it. It was actually Hugh Hancock. I was gonna say, I was gonna say, what did Hugh Hancock say? Yeah, I was gonna say that.

It was Hugh Hancock talking about machinima. Really? On HBO? Yeah, he didn't explain what Yeah, I was gonna say that. And then you had to talk talking about machinima. Really? On HBO? Yeah, and did you explain what the term meant or anything like that? It's crazy. And then it's like, and then yesterday, I think there were nine posts about the head machinima in them. The word machinima in the actual post.

So, that's a terrible word. Which I mean, post-historic words needs to go away. Remember, we made fun of it. We first heard it that what we were doing was called machinima. And it was originally called quake movies before, you know, before kind of got bigger. And, you know, peels are doing more stuff on consoles. And, the, we heard the word machinima. We thought, we're not going to use that.

We're going to make those sense. We're going to call it a weed use something else. And we're going to call it what render vision. We're going to have to do the bus stop. That's a way better way better name people look at the word machinima. No one knows how to say that It I didn't know how to say it machinima. It doesn't mean first of all the word is wrong right machine and cinema It shouldn't have that second eye. It should be machinima like M a c h i and e m a within its machine machine-a-ma like M-A-C-H-I-N-E-M-A. But then it's machine-a-ma. But cinema and machine both have that E in that place. There's no I there. I'm not gonna, I don't go to cinema. You go to cinema?

Cinema? So, cinema. Anyway, so I thought it was going to take this little trip down to that and then I got on the drunk gamers site the archive site And I had made those 10 halo videos before red versus blue got with a 10 really they were 10 I didn't know there was 10 either. I remember like two of them. I remember you sniping someone out of a war talk Yeah, it's awesome. I did my flat spin stuff too Yeah, I remember the flat spin and and then there's just random gameplay stuff where I'd play with people on Game Spy which was I think X-Box connect X-Box connect. That's what it was. Oh, um, and then there's just random gameplay stuff where I'd play with people on, uh, Game Spy, which was I think, excellent. Xbox Connect.

Xbox Connect, that's what it was. Oh yeah. And, um, there was a lot of stuff in there, you know, I found my open letter to Angelina Jolie. Oh yeah. I found, uh, still hot. My interview with my wife for Soldier Fortune. I'm going to back that over a second.

For people who might not remember what Xbox Connect was, before Xbox Live existed on the original Xbox if you wanted to play Halo over the internet you had to plug into a router and use like a third party piece of software in a computer to find other people using this software on their computer to kind of do matchmaking for Halo over the internet. And a ton of people used it. And it was laggy and it was the fun as hell. Yeah. And everybody was undefeated. that we're an undefeated team We've never been beaten by anybody halo, you know, and then they would never be in our host Yeah, they would never not be host That game really suffered if you could not use the cyber rifle if you were not the host in those games

Yeah, but it was fun man. It was a lot of fun. I Really enjoyed those games back in my day. We had to suffer to play halo on the internet To walk up uphill with our packets It was upstream both ways Man, that's a fucking joke of the week right there It just makes me wonder you know, I mean it was a makes me wonder, you know what I mean? It was a lot different back then too. We even look at something like piracy,

which we've talked about before, is if people had to go through, you know, I mean, everybody thinks of themselves like this big hacker, like they walk around with their fucking iPhone and their goddamn apps and their blogs, you know, where everything's basically cookie cutter for them, you just basically fill out a form, you know, and that makes you an interesting person

on the internet, you know? Nobody even makes a goddamn website anymore. You know, if you look at like even like some of the shows that are out there now that are big on stuff, you go to the show and like say Fred on YouTube and you go to Fred's channel, he's number one on YouTube, number one on the number one network, and his website, nobody goes to his website. Nope, so even in the like top 100,000 sites on Alexa. I know, it's like, these are basic fucking fundamentals of getting stuff done.

I guess, you know, there's a different path that people can take now where the internet is becoming like this farm system for other bigger things, you know, where I want to get noticed on the internet and then I want to go off the TV or go off the movies, which, you know, good luck with that, first of all, you know, but build a goddamn website, you know what I mean? It's hit the same thing with bands too. Learn to fundamentals. Everybody's fucking slam dunkin Right guys? Nobody's dribbling like fucking get the basics down every single band has a my space page

And that's their official website. There's nothing worse than wanting to find out about a band and having to navigate through their shitty My space background and all that stuff want to find tour dates or you know how the band got started or whatever It's why the my space spaces my space pages are so shitty looking. It's because these are people that can't build web pages. You know, you're talking about everyone being a hacker and how and things like that and how cookie cutter it is. I read a fucking scary article the other day going back to slash dot. I guess there's this proof of concept hack out there where people can key log what you do it on your computer through your electrical power outlet. What?

I guess the keyboard connectors inside computers are unshielded. So as you're typing the resistance going through the electrical impulses for your keyboard generate tiny variances and fluctuations that affects your draw of power from the wall. So if someone else is plugging into the same breaker as you, they can plug in a special device and then plug it into their computer and have software interpolate, filter the noise out and then get your key logs. Fuck, that's awesome. So I mean, even just plugging your fucking computer in, if there's a hacker in the building on the same breaker as you they can see everything you're doing Dude, that's fucking nuts. I said this to my wife last night because my wife is a very conservative lady and we tend to get in. I think of myself as being middle of the road kind of leaning one way or the other on either issues

But she's talk she you know she's in the whole Obama socialism thing right sure which is kind kind of, you know, we have to have these discussions, like socialized medicine and all that stuff. You know, here's what's gonna happen, you know. Doctors are gonna be not be able to provide surgery. It's like, there's no bill that says this, you know what I mean? There's nothing, you know, granted we're on that road, we could head towards that. Anyway, whole political discussion we get into with my wife. But what I was trying to get with her with this whole socialism thing is that everyone's focused on the political powers that be as being they're going to introduce socialism.

Nobody's looking at what the internet is doing to the consumer mind, you know, for entertainment, for cost of goods, for, you know, just the way we spend all of our time and our value of what we put on a service. That's the internet is the most socialist thing you could possibly imagine. Sure. I mean, you have people taking stuff that in the real world has a price tag in a value and they're telling you it has no value. Right, right beside it, you know?

Just in parallel, there's this whole socialist thing going on. And everything on the internet is free and the moment something becomes paid or God forbid even puts a fucking ad up to help pay for stuff people are like no this is inappropriate this is intolerable we cannot stand this you know it's a weird kind of socialism because it's like a few levels of participants and then a lot of viewers you know yeah a lot of you know it's not it's not even spread you know which wise sites I think go up and, you know, yeah a lot of you know, it's not it's not even spread, you know, which why sites I think go up and down You know what I for one welcome socialism and welcome Star Trek Where's my fucking spaceship dude? I you know Nobody's complaining when our socialized fire department shows up to put your house out, you know whoa

Whoa, hey You know whoa whoa whoa hold on do we turn into a socialist podcast all of a sudden We're in fireman. We're red for a reason Cool your jets there com red That's a problem is the hop for words becomes like a gateway truck Well, I'm fucking socialism can prevent produce Ivana over here. What is her name? She get her name right? Yeah, that's a good call and you know, maybe it's not so bad, but I just thought It's not gonna come changes don't come the way we expect them to come. No. It's what the point I'm trying to make. Yeah, of course. Very, very long-winded example of that.

All right. Well, I think we should probably wrap up. We're going a little long here. I gotta look up the high-for-word check name. What do you want to, uh, we're gonna go for lunch today, guys? Uh, we had Chick-fil-A already. Yeah, I'm gonna have a real lunch, though. Marina? Oriova. Is she so bad? Are there any weird accents in that name. Nope. No weird name. He'll tie down her backward letters No, she has she has her name here written in Russian though and that which it's crazy You can totally see her boobs on her Wikipedia page How old is that chick? 27

Why? It's not 27 maybe in Russian years What's the conversion rate on that? I've had the Russian version of kids are written in pencil. What do you think? That trick's 35. I guarantee you Who cares? Well, it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter But I don't think she doesn't appear to be 27 It's not a 27 year old

But she's she's awesome super hot and Filled like found a niche that is like she's In there doing it perfect. I love it. I hope she's on the internet for 30 years. Absolutely. I hope she gets her own talk show where she just mentions words all day. Hope it's a video podcast. She's fucking awesome. Anything y'all want to talk about before we wrap up? Yes, I want to talk about something I thought was a good idea story wise and you kind of mentioned it when you were saying Star Trek Socialism. Uh-huh. Guess when you talk about your socialist leaning thing, you're like, I'm not a socialist.

You want to have a meeting and let's share a comment. Let's share a comment. Are we going to identify each other? We have this notion that we contact extraterrestrial life. Then we're going to get a radio signal and we're going to come in contact with another planet. Right? At some point. And that message will be very clear. It'll be a very happy scientific message and we'll gonna come in contact with another planet right at some point and that message will be very clear it'll be a very happy scientific message and we'll start communicating with people to be this wonderful

relationship right sure what if what if we contact a world that's like ours and we reach this alien race and there's these nations that are divided and they're like oh don't talk to those guys talk to us you know like there's several competing radio signals from the same world. Like if extraterrestrials contacted us, I could see that happening. Like we would not provide a unified message of life on Earth. Especially like during the Cold War, for instance. Yeah. Yeah. They'd be like, oh, don't listen to the Americans. They think that, you know, they have this thing called money, you know, and socialists are crazy. They're all these, you know, group think people.

It would just be interesting to like come across a world where they're split and divided and that would seem so ridiculous from such a far perspective, you know. Yeah. I'm starting to sound like a socialist, one worldview, but I just thought about that. Like what happens if the first message we receive from an extraterrestrial world would be a divided message we receive competing signals. The first message we're going to receive from a well to be a divided message. We receive competing signals the first message We're gonna receive a million wells and be a fucking laser bolt to the head. Yeah, probably so right? God damn it. We ever receive a radio signal from an alien planet. I hope to God. We do not reply laser bolt to the head Do not want to what each other we set out satellites. I know we're in an information. We're idiots. Yeah, pretty dumb

We're idiots. That's the dumbest thing in the world. Here's how to destroy us. Here's our weakness Okay, I'm for the penis These are our soft parts Yeah, that was that's crazy to think what could happen with that crazy to think you know I was reading this article steve and Hawking wrote the other day about how Intelligence is not necessarily the ultimate form of evolution like maybe intelligence is just some weird byproduct that's not very common as a result of evolution and

because his argument was that you know the jump from single-cell organism to multi-cell organism and then beyond single-cell organism to multi-cell organism and then beyond, to even get to the point where intelligence can start forming, takes 2.5, you know, in our case, took like 2.5 billion years, which is- Or seven days.

Or seven days, which is a significant chunk of the lifetime of an average star. So, you know, most of the time that a star's burning, you have life that isn't even intelligent yet. Intelligence ends up being a small sliver of time and when you look at like a cosmos perspective of a world. Well sort of kind of organic stuff in general. Well yeah but if life starts really as scientific analysis, it's sort of kind of organic stuff like well. So his argument was that we may not find very much intelligent life in

the universe because it might be just be a weird byproduct and not a destination. We might, but just be at the wrong window in time chances are that we are right for that particular Yeah, now he's in a wheelchair Oh, he talks weird Like a robot strange accent. He's Russian or something actually I actually had a conversation with somebody their day where they were Anti-Steven Hawking Joel, I think you what yeah, Joel in, we were talking about Steven Hawking and came in and like started spouting out

how Joel wasn't even in the top 100 physicists. No, Steven Hawking. No, Steven Hawking's not even in the top 100 physicists, but yet Joel couldn't name us any of the other 99 physicists. He's not so great. He's not so smart. Like what's your problem with Steven Hawking? He's like, is my seed boiled under?

He's just got good marketing. No, that's, that's my health. Oh my god, that's awesome. So Joel, look at this. We get the, definitely gets the biggest laugh of the podcast, even though he's not here this week. It's too bad. I don't know.

We're to walk upstream both ways. It was, uh, it was pretty good too. Oh no, Marina Orlova has also appeared in numerous phone sex television advertisements. Oh nice. That's a blast. I mean, that's Wikipedia. It's somebody's smear campaign.

Well, we can fix it. This place have chick like hot for syllables. So he's trying to, we're trying to bring your down. Disregarder. Yeah. It's like, yeah, she's original, but she's not the best. I think we've heard that before. All right, if she hadn't done it, someone else would have.

Yeah. All right, Jeff, anything before we wrap up? No, dude, see everybody in the T.O. this weekend. See all the cover cover. I should give our booth number. We're going to be at booth 1437. We'll put a map up on the site so you can find us. It's our first corner booth.

The first corner booth? Yeah, look for us on a corner. That's a great way to find us. We're gonna be right by the the cafeteria food area, so I know y'all see us food court Me to Joel can get a chicken sandwich anytime he wants and yell about Stephen Hawking man, I bet he get the shit beat out of him at Comic Con. He starts his fairies in Stephen Hawking well I don't know if it may be the verbal shit Shins will be bruised by the end of the night All right, thanks for listening everyone TT then Describe the show to a newcomer and a more familiar way. Do you like apples? example together and trepid hosts

Characombs Characombs are free of d's of nothing to do with this podcast analyze various unsolved and rooster teeth cryptic podcast Face call to action. Feel free to add something show premise specific, but short. Listen to show name on Apple Spotify or wherever you get podcasts. It's f*** face, a podcast.

Subscribe or no, you do yes? you